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Print Systems
by Mel Seder 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

I'm using Red Hat 7.3 and KDE with a Epson C80 printer When I print I get a gui window on the screen and one of the sections called print systems asks me if I want to use one of the following; CUPS Print through an external program (generic) Generic UNIX LPD print system (default) LPR/LPRng Print System RLPR environment (Remote LPD server) What are all these things? Is there a preferred one? Where can I read up on "Linux Print Systems"? ===== "The sooner you make five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them." - Kimon Nicolaides __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com

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Red Hat 7.3 Installation on a XP Box
by Mel Seder 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

My friend wants to try Linux on his brand new 2.2 Ghz P4. He has a DSL connection to the internet from Manitoba Telecom (our provincial phone company). He is running Windows XP. Is there anything to watch out for when doing the install? I've installed many many times on a Win98 box but never to an XP machine. ===== "The sooner you make five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them." - Kimon Nicolaides __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com

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image file
by millward 24 Aug '02

24 Aug '02

Could someone tell me how to create an image file? I guess it would be FAT12 or ext2fs. Like Red Hat's boot.img. All I can find on the net is stuff for creating jpegs or gifs. I don't necessarily want to boot the image either. There must be some simple utility in Linux that does this, only I don't know which one.

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RedHat Limbo
by Raymond J. Henry 24 Aug '02

24 Aug '02

Has Limbo been pulled? I DL'd it a while ago, but there seems to be a problem with ISO for the second disk. I've been everywhere on the 'Net, and can't find it anywhere....

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New Printer suggestions request
by Mel Seder 22 Aug '02

22 Aug '02

I run Red Hat 7.3 and Windows 98 I don't do too much text printing but have a digital camera and do print pics on Glossy Photo Paper both 8.5 x 11 and 4 x 6 sizes. I expect to pay between $300 and $400 for a decent printer. Please share your knowledge or experience with me :-) ===== "The sooner you make five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them." - Kimon Nicolaides __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com

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Re: [RndTbl] telnet question
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 21 Aug '02

21 Aug '02

According to millward: > I managed to get NFS working between > one machine with Red Hat 7.3 (server) and > another machine with Slackware 6.3 kernel 2.0.35 > That is, it works when the server is not root. > But what really puzzels me is telnet. > I can ping from both machines with no trouble, > but telnet only works when the server telnet's the > client . > Telnet fails when the Slackware machine trys to > telnet the Red Hat machine. e.g. > telnet 194.155.75.90 > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused > Is the Slackware 6.3 kernel 2.0.35 telnet version just too > old? Or is something in Red Hat keeping it from connecting? > Security is not an issue here. This is just two home machines. At least as far back as Red Hat 7.1, when they tightened security and allowed you to configure ipchains-based firewalling right from the installer, many of the network services started through xinetd, and particularly those with security issues (like telnet, ftp, rlogin, rsh, and rexec) are no longer enabled by default. The ssh service (based on the OpenSSH implementation) is enabled by default, and is what they recommend you use instead of the alternatives. The "Connection refused" message above suggests that the service is disabled. If you aren't concerned about the security implications of enabling telnet, you can do it as follows for Red Hat Linux: chkconfig telnet on The chkconfig command is a convenient way to enable and disable init- and xinetd-based services. You can see what's enabled and what isn't as follows: chkconfig --list There's also the "ntsysv" command, which is a text-based GUI front end to this. It will present you with a merged list of both init- and xinetd-based services as a scrollable list, and allow you to select or deselect those to be enabled for the default set of run levels. It's not as flexible as chkconfig, but it is easier to use. -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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telnet question
by millward 20 Aug '02

20 Aug '02

I managed to get NFS working between one machine with Red Hat 7.3 (server) and another machine with Slackware 6.3 kernel 2.0.35 That is, it works when the server is not root. But what really puzzels me is telnet. I can ping from both machines with no trouble, but telnet only works when the server telnet's the client . Telnet fails when the Slackware machine trys to telnet the Red Hat machine. e.g. telnet 194.155.75.90 telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused Is the Slackware 6.3 kernel 2.0.35 telnet version just too old? Or is something in Red Hat keeping it from connecting? Security is not an issue here. This is just two home machines.

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Re: [RndTbl] 2 HDs and a CD-rom
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 19 Aug '02

19 Aug '02

According to millward: > I was wondering, is there an ideal way to > configure a system with two IDE hard drives and > a generic read-only CD-rom ? That would depend on your particular hardware, and your intended usage... > I read somewhere that the > CD-rom had to be a primary slave for > it to boot properly. Is this true? I don't know that to be true in any of the newer systems, but it may have been the case with some of the earlier BIOSes. Many of them didn't implement the CD-ROM booting feature in a fully standard way, so there could be such limitations with some systems. I'd try it and see. In your case, it may be best to leave it as the primary slave, and make each of your two hard drives masters on each of the two IDE controllers. > I plan to spread one Linux installation over > both hard drives. Its a P133 and the hard drives > are both 540 megs. > And one more question. > The CD-rom in the system above is really just > for installing Linux. After that I plan on removing it. > Would removing the CD-rom 'confuse' Linux and > screw things up or will the boot up proceedure > recognize the new configuration? Linux uses device names based on the (fixed) hardware configuration for IDE devices, as follows: hda primary master hdb primary slave hdc secondary master hdd secondary slave ... So, removing a slave device wouldn't affect anything. If you removed a master device, you might have to turn it's corresponding slave into a master, which would change names. However, there isn't much in Linux that depends on these hardcoded names anymore. You might have to fix /etc/fstab, and either /etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/grub.conf, depending on your loader. But, if you make your CD-ROM drive a slave (primary or secondary), you should be able to remove it without changing anything. Spreading your two hard drives across the primary and secondary controllers (as masters) will give you a slight performance advantage over having them both on one controller (as master and slave), since the two controllers and drives can then overlap I/O operations. The CD-ROM drive would slow down disk I/O on the controller it's tied to, but if you'll be removing it later, that would be fine. -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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2 HDs and a CD-rom
by millward 17 Aug '02

17 Aug '02

I was wondering, is there an ideal way to configure a system with two IDE hard drives and a generic read-only CD-rom ? I read somewhere that the CD-rom had to be a primary slave for it to boot properly. Is this true? I plan to spread one Linux installation over both hard drives. Its a P133 and the hard drives are both 540 megs. And one more question. The CD-rom in the system above is really just for installing Linux. After that I plan on removing it. Would removing the CD-rom 'confuse' Linux and screw things up or will the boot up proceedure recognize the new configuration?

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command line question, cat and dd
by millward 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

Subject: forgot the '>' in cat command. Excuse: I was just following the example given in the Linux Terminal Server doc, ltsp-3.0.pdf ! But that is a rather lame excuse. I should have known better. Thanks for the help.

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